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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 9d

Wow! The first African American female doctor in Alabama! #sts #hps #blackhistory #histmed @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social #histsci

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 13d

Today's Find: First certified, practicing female physician in #Alabama tinyurl.com/ph4ykgv Halle T. Dillon at #Tuskegee Institute in the 1890s #histmed tinyurl.com/yyn5cwxy #medicalhistory

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 10d

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026

NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️

HOPOS 2026

Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

hopos2026.dryfta.com

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 19d

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Jobs

www.sts.sot.tum.de

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 17d

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.

Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science

employment.ku.dk

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you @sebfalk.com and @saraluckelman.bsky.social for mentioning my book! Really sorry to miss Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing! #BookHistory #EarlyModern #HistSTM #HPS #STS

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thanks Sarah! Really wish I could have been there to hear Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing!

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Michael Barany @mbarany.com · Jul 2

Excited for the launch of the ESHS/HSS 2026 Joint Meeting call for proposals, presented by Simone Turchetti and Sam Robinson at the General Assembly of the #ICHST2025
Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...

2025 HSS Annual Meeting - History of Science Society

The 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. The conference theme will be Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences.

hssonline.org

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Jun 24

When it comes to cognitive abilities, ChatGPT is the Emperor‘s new clothes for university students. I do not understand why universities are not taking more active action to collectively counter the problem. #education #sts #hps #media #ai #data #humanities theconversation.com/mit-research...

MIT researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated

Like calculators before them, AI tools can raise the bar for what people can achieve – if they’re used the right way.

theconversation.com

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Jun 23

For all the naysayers who predicted the digital death of annotation...

#bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend

Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework?

www.theguardian.com

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.

Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event.

#hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪

AAHPSSS @aahpsss.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025

The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.

Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...

2025 Conference

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Univer…

aahpsss.net.au

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Jun 20

Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society

Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’

Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Jun 2

Could you send me a link to the contents page?

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Apr 30

Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book:

newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...

#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · May 28

Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 21

Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist

Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’

www.theguardian.com

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · May 10

In the lead up to the launch of Season 5, we have re-released some of the most popular episodes from our collection for your listening pleasure. Make sure you've had a listen! Or a re-listen, like @schizosemia.bsky.social

#hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪

Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · May 10

Revisiting this excellent episode of @hpspodcast.bsky.social with the Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Audience Faves: Daston & Harrison on 'Scientists and History'

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · S4 E16 · 31m

podcasts.apple.com

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 11

I'm currently researching the place of science in the early abolitionist movement's moral and legal arguments against enslavement. Today I came across this noteworthy observation:

#histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 9

Manuscript submitted to the publisher for review! #histsci #histmed #sts #hps #gender #literature #manuscripts #diaries #bookhistory #britishhistory

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 9

Coming to a London conference near you .... #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 4

This is super helpful! Thank you very much. One the doctors I'm research lived in early 19th century New York, so that book will most certainly be relevant. Is there a chapter on Black actors, or are they spread throughout the book?

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 2

Just discovered from c 1800 school textbooks that one of the black doctors I'm researching was likely taught ... the history of science! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Apr 30

Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book:

newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...

#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · Mar 9

Wonderful to see John Christie and Robert Fox (my external PhD examiner many moons ago) when I was in Oxford this weekend.

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